Jazz Listings for Jan. 8-14

Full reviews of recent jazz performances: nytimes.com/jazz. A searchable guide to these and other shows is at nytimes.com/events.

Chris Botti (through Sunday) Mr. Botti, whose adult-pop savvy and controlled but brooding trumpet sound have made him a global superstar, descends on the Blue Note every year around this time for an extended stay. At 8 and 10:30 p.m.Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, 212-475-8592, bluenote.net. (Nate Chinen)

★ George Cables Trio (through Sunday) Mr. Cables is a judicious and seasoned pianist whose extensive career as a sideman has finally taken a firm back seat to his profile as a composer-bandleader. He has a sparkling new album, “In Good Company,” that features the same regular partners found here: Essiet Essiet on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, 212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com. (Chinen)

Kurt Elling: ‘Passion World’ (Wednesday through Jan. 16) “Passion World,” the most recent album by the singer Kurt Elling, puts a high-concept gloss on the love song, drawing broadly from a pop repertory and enlisting a global assortment of guests. It’s an approach that could tilt precariously toward the precious, though Mr. Elling has the skill set to walk that line, especially in performance. At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com. (Chinen)

The Ex, Bill Laswell and Colin Stetson, Happy Apple (Wednesday) The kickoff concert for this year’s Winter Jazzfest is a triple bill with sonic adventurism at its core. The Ex is a Dutch band with a history that has rattled fast from punk to free jazz to Ethiopian music and beyond; Mr. Laswell is a bassist and producer whose progressive streak should put him in the right frame of mind for Mr. Stetson’s expansive yet interior style on saxophone. And Happy Apple is a clever abstract-groove collective from Minneapolis made up of the saxophonist Mike Lewis, the bassist Erik Fratzke and the drummer Dave King. At 8 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, 212-505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com. (Chinen)

★ Al Foster’s Birthday Bash (Friday through Sunday) The veteran drummer Al Foster has a rhythmic signature that’s both assertive and relaxed. In an early birthday booking — he’ll turn 73 on Jan. 18 — he leads a lean working band with Eli Degibri on tenor saxophone, Adam Birnbaum on piano and Doug Weiss on bass. At 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, 212-864-6662, smokejazz.com. (Chinen)

Carlos Henriquez: Back in the Bronx (Wednesday) Mr. Henriquez, the bassist in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, hails from a Puerto Rican family in the Bronx, and his background deeply informs his work. Drawing from his recent debut album, “The Bronx Pyramid,” he leads a band with the trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, the saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia, the pianist Rob Rodriguez, the drummer Ali Jackson and the percussionist Bobby Allende. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Chinen)

Israeli Jazz Fest (Sunday through Tuesday) A strong sampling, by no means comprehensive, from the current pool of young Israeli jazz talent — hosted by Gilad Hekselman, who will perform both in a duo with his fellow guitarist Yotam Silberstein (Monday at 8 p.m.) and in a trio led by the drummer Ziv Ravitz (Tuesday at 9:30 p.m.). Among the other highlights is a set by the virtuoso young pianist Gadi Lehavi, with a trio (Monday at 9:30 p.m.); the club website includes a full schedule. At Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com. (Chinen)

Ali Jackson Presents the Classic Quintets (Through Sunday) The drummer Ali Jackson generates a subtle but irresistible force when he plays, making even the smallest gestures advance his agenda of locomotion. He leads a lesson in form this weekend, exploring the repertory of some historic five-piece bands — including Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Quintet — with help from Marcus Printup on trumpet, Craig Handy on tenor saxophone, Emmet Cohen on piano and Yasushi Nakamura on bass. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard.com. (Chinen)

Jazz Legends for Disability Pride (Thursday) Presented in partnership with the Winter Jazzfest, this concert is a benefit for Disability Pride NYC, a nonprofit started by the pianist Mike LeDonne. Among the many prominent artists taking part are the saxophonists Benny Golson and George Coleman; the drummers Jimmy Cobb and Louis Hayes; the pianists Harold Mabern and Monty Alexander; and the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. At 6:30 p.m., Quaker Friends Meeting Hall, 15 Rutherford Place, near East 15th Street, East Village, winterjazzfest.com. (Chinen)

★ Azar Lawrence Quartet: Tribute to McCoy Tyner (Friday and Saturday) A powerful tenor saxophonist in the middle of a welcome career resurgence, Mr. Lawrence is best known for his association with the pianist McCoy Tyner, in the 1970s. (He was Mr. Tyner’s surrogate for John Coltrane in the years after Coltrane’s death.) So this tribute comes from a genuine place; it also features a killer rhythm section, with Benito Gonzalez on piano, Gerald Cannon on bass and on drums, either Billy Hart (on Friday) or Brandon Lewis (Saturday). At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Club Bonafide, 212 East 52nd Street, 646-918-6189, clubbonafide.com. (Chinen)

★ Ibrahim Maalouf: ‘Kalthoum’ (Thursday) Born in Beirut but raised in Paris, Ibrahim Maalouf has in some ways carried the mantle of his father, Nassim; both have made a specialty of playing Arabic music, with classical precision, on the four-valve quarter-tone trumpet. In a reprise of a superb appearance in this room last year — and as on an album, “Kalthoum,” out digitally this week — Mr. Maalouf teams with the saxophonist Mark Turner, the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Clarence Penn in homage to the great Arabic singer Oum Kalthoum. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Chinen)

Tony Malaby’s Apparitions (Saturday) Mr. Malaby, a tenor saxophonist drawn about equally to ecstatic turbulence and reflective calm, has led some version of his band Apparitions, on and off, for more than a dozen years. At the moment it features an excellent arrangement of partners: the trombonist Ben Gerstein, the bassist Michael Formanek and two drummers, Randy Peterson and Billy Mintz. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com. (Chinen)

Mike Moreno Quartet (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Moreno, a guitarist whose temperament runs cool but intense, has a superfine new album, “Lotus,” which builds on his streamlined and melodic vision for modern jazz. He draws from the album with a band featuring Shai Maestro on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kendrick Scott on drums. From 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Smalls Jazz Club, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, 646-476-4346, smallslive.com. (Chinen)

★ Miles Okazaki: Trickster (Tuesday and Wednesday) Even by the standard of his hyperliterate post-bop peer group, the guitarist Miles Okazaki is an unusually calculating musical thinker, drawn to numerical puzzles and structural designs. His new project, Trickster, seems likely to support his ideas with a muscular frame. It features the pianist Craig Taborn and Mr. Okazaki’s rhythm team partners in recent music by Steve Coleman: the bassist Anthony Tidd and the drummer Sean Rickman. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., the Jazz Gallery, 1160 Broadway, fifth floor, at West 27th Street, 646-494-3625, jazzgallery.org. (Chinen)

Nicholas Payton Trio (through Sunday) A trumpeter of incisive prowess — and, in recent seasons, dauntless provocation — Nicholas Payton has often sounded best in the sparest settings, which bodes well for this engagement. Working with no pianist, he’ll lead a trio with two veteran collaborators, the bassist Vicente Archer and the drummer Herlin Riley. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Chinen)

Enrico Pieranunzi (Tuesday through Jan. 17) Mr. Pieranunzi is one of the leading jazz pianists in Italy, a careful rhapsodist with a more than casual appreciation of the Bill Evans style. He works often with American partners and has a good crew for this engagement: the trumpeter Diego Urcola, the tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, the bassist Ben Street and the drummer Adam Cruz. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, 212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com. (Chinen)

Jamison Ross (Thursday) Though he is best known as a drummer — by way of his sideman work and, impressively, a first-place finish at the 2012 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition — Mr. Ross also put himself forward as a silk-voiced singer on his recent debut, “Jamison,” which is up for a Grammy Award for best jazz vocal album. He draws from it here, joined by peers like the pianist Chris Pattishall and the trumpeter Alphonso Horne. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Club Bonafide, 212 East 52nd Street, 646-918-6189, clubbonafide.com. (Chinen)

★ Still Dreaming (Tuesday through Jan. 17) Old and New Dreams, a quartet active roughly during the Carter and Reagan eras, celebrated the rambling spirit of Ornette Coleman, from a close vantage: all of its members, including the tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, were former band mates of his. Which in some respects makes Still Dreaming a tribute to a tribute — though the group has the right lineup for such a task, starting with Mr. Redman’s son the saxophonist Joshua Redman, and extending to the cornetist Ron Miles, the bassist Scott Colley and the drummer Brian Blade. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard.com. (Chinen)

Steve Wilson’s Next Generation of Jazz (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Wilson, a saxophonist with a clear and limber sound, has been, in the best possible sense, one of the stalwart utility men of his generation. (He’ll turn 55 next month.) He has also become a bandleader of vision, and with this engagement he uses his stature to showcase some undeniable younger talent: the trumpeter Riley Mulherkar, the pianist Chris Pattishall, the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., the Jazz Gallery, 1160 Broadway, fifth floor, at West 27th Street, 646-494-3625, jazzgallery.org. (Chinen)